Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the canon in the history of economics and its critique -- The Mediterranean trajectory of Aristotle's economic canon -- The idea of usury in Patristic literature -- Self-interest as an acceptable mode of human behaviour -- Deconstructing the canonical view on Adam Smith: a new look at the principles of economics -- The 'canonical' model of economic growth in the debate between Ricardo and Malthus -- In defence of a traditional canon: a comparison of Ricardo and Rau -- Cracking the canon: William Stanley Jevons and the deconstruction of 'Ricardo' -- Who blushes at the name: John Kells Ingram and minor literature -- In search of a canonical history of macroeconomics in the interwar period: Haberler's Prosperity and Depression revisited -- Preobrazhensky and the theory of economic development -- Canon and heresy: religion as a way of telling the story of economics -- The neo-classical synthesis in the Netherlands: a demand and supply analysis -- Index.